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WSB isn’t doing anything that isn’t typical on actual Wall St.

The market is, and always has been, a ridiculous game. WSB is just showing the world. But the folks on actual Wall St would prefer no one else can see how the sausage is made.
https://github.com/doktornotor/pfsense-still-closedsource/bl...
Lots and lots of manual processes, and lots and lots of "man"power (in quotes because often it was literally acres and acres of women doing computations by hand - a "computer" was a person, often a woman, doing computations).
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GP is a reflection of the current political state of affairs: to feel schadenfreude, you need that us-vs-them mentality, and GP mentions feeling schadenfreude like it’s the most natural thing ever.
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The additional cost is amortized over all customers.
Yes, you certainly can.
I personally doubt that Open Banking is the answer here. Most open banking payment run over Faster Payments, which is owned by a company called VocaLink, which is in turn owned by (drum roll please) MasterCard.

If Open Banking takes off, then expect MasterCard to start increasing their Faster Payments fees (they exist, your bank just eats the cost).

But first you need to convince customers to give up the protections offered by Debit/Credit cards. There’s basically 0 recourse for a consumer to get their money back if they’re scammed via Open Banking. Unlike Credit/Debit cards where chargebacks are an option.
> Are you suggesting it hits scaling boundaries earlier than that single-node postgres?

This is nosql scenario all over again. You have to think in cost($)/query and your data layout.

> Of course a distributed architecture costs efficiency, but as long as it still scales further (and after some point, cheaper) than single-node alternatives, the efficiency loss is tolerable.

The efficiency loss is tolerable. The question is, when ? For primary-key get, efficiency-loss is, let's say, none. So you can start distributed from the start.

For another query, especially multi-tenant when you can put a tenant in 1 box, it may start making sense AFTER scaling to 2TB memory node.

Imagine a select query doing a join. It has to read 1GB from nvme-array or from network.

Imagine a write, ending up as a distributed-write, it needs to wait for 2x+ more servers in the network.
No, we explicitly rejected a customs union. Customs union would result in no customs (though probably not as you'd have to also be part of the single market to eliminate all checks).

The free trade agreement is different, and a step down from that. Given the amount of trade I think the customs fees will come down significantly over time once things are bedded in a bit more.
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At least EU directives are enacted as local laws. Brexit doesn’t mean all those laws suddenly get cancelled.

But this fee cap wasn’t a directive? What other EU regulations were never directives, and are going to evaporate now we are post Brexit?
> I think your one(?) experience with Middle-eastern engineers has unfortunately given you a bad impression, but I'm not sure that necessitates making such a dogmatic and blanket "caveat".

I've directly managed 6 teams in Istanbul / Beirut / Cairo, another 4 in Belarus / Kiev, and one somewhere in Russia (I forget, it's been 20 years). Those in Belarus were by far the best, probably because they aren't mobile (it's very difficult to emigrate from Belarus into Europe or the USA). They work hard, are paid well and retention is great.

The worst were in Cairo, by far. I enjoy working with Istanbul engineers, but I steer away from Ankara / Konya teams because they tend to be conservative and just aren't great for startup environments, they're more well suited to work for the financial industry or the large retail holdings.

Beirut isn't a fair comparison, because it's a fairly liberal / western city (heck, they even do their day to day transactions in dollars instead of lira). Most of the engineers I've recruited there were also female.

And yes, my preference is to avoid mid-western / southern engineers. I don't hire people I wouldn't want to socialize with after work. I always vet hires and contractors on LinkedIn / Facebook. If I see pro-trump / anti-lgbt / proudly / qanon activity, their resumes are round-filed. If the firm's owners donated to trump, those firms are blacklisted.

I wouldn't hire you into the companies where I tend to work. If I worked in something more soulless like advertising / finance / government where I just wouldn't care about my job or employer, I would hire you because you'd fit in.

Call it discriminatory hiring, I don't care, my projects succeed, my teams are successful, and my engineers are loyal, some have followed me around for 25 years.
Channels which used to report on black on white crime have started to be removed from YouTube over the last couple of years so I suspect they're now looking for less explicit ways to post this type of content.
I think a lot of the problems are deeply ingrained in society and culture. In the UK for example, engineering, especially software engineering is just fundamentally a low social status job, and people with high status running companies are fundamentally adverse to paying for it, and that's unlikely to change for a generation or more.

If you try to recommend people pay more to get better engineers and stop them all going to the US so they can build bigger and stronger companies here you just get dead eyes back - they can't comprehend why you'd give an engineer money.

At some point you need to look after yourself and go elsewhere.
My favorite is at some point in the last season they show a 286 booting up with more than 16mb RAM (the real world maximum that CPU supports). I can't help but think this is an intentional easter egg.
Bets is in the name.
Meanwhile, on a computer that’s benchmarking within 20% of your figures:

• CPython 3.9.1 segfaults on a direct port of fold.vim after a few seconds. (It generates the 22,888,887-character `1+2+3+…+2999999` string in mostly under a second, then hits a stack overflow in the eval() call, presumably in parsing.)

• CPython 3.9.1 completes it with a loop in under a second;

• CPython 3.9.1 completes it with functools.reduce in half a second;

• CPython 3.9.1 completes it using sum() in about 150ms;

• Node.js 15.6.0 completes it with a loop in about 150ms;

• Node.js 15.6.0 with --jitless completes it with a loop within 300ms;

• Perl 5.32 completes it with a C-style loop in under 300ms;

• Perl 5.32 completes it with a foreach loop on a range in about 160ms;

• Perl 5.32 completes it with List::Util::sum in about 600ms.

(I didn’t try porting fold.vim to JavaScript because it lacks the primitives to make that a sane operation; or Perl, because my Perl skills are rusty enough that it would take a few minutes to sort it out, and I was lazy.)

So yeah, other scripting languages’ alternatives are pretty much just 5–20× as fast across the board, and often even more than that—and worse still, the performance pitfalls in Vimscript are often not what someone familiar with performance might expect—few would expect your fold.vim to be faster than your loop.vim.

Vimscript is routinely painfully slow to the point that it can easily be a serious bottleneck on anything involved, e.g. a fancy indent script, or some script that you use to process a file.
On some websites I get a tracking / cookie consent popup which, if I choose not to consent to everything, leaves me hanging for a _very_ long time while "saving my settings". I am talking about 30-60 seconds here. That must be deliberate to keep you from denying consent. I forgot which company it was but I immediately recognize those popups.
> The "biggest" Knowledge Graph is Google, but it is unclear, how much there is actually Semantic Web and how much search, ML, NLP etc..

The second biggest is possibly WikiData, and it is not that small.

As to the practical use cases, there are many, but it is the premier way of encoding metadata for search engines: https://schema.org/docs/about.html

And the amount of datasets and ontologies that exist is quite vast:

- https://lod-cloud.net/dataset

- http://obofoundry.org/

- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/User_M...

I would like to understand what other options you would consider better for these datasets, for the metadata and for the ontologies?

I mean if not RDF for web metadata then what? If not semantic web for UK govt data (https://ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/, https://opendatacommunities.org/data_home, https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/dataset?res_format=RD..., https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/dataset?res_format=SP...) then what?

It would be nice to have something even better, but I much prefer RDF to a bunch of CSV files.
Just because something has existed a certain way doesn’t mean it is the optimal way it should exist. What is the fundamental point of having a stock market?

Fulfill that purpose, and the leave the gamblers to find something else to do for a living. They add no value to the market or to society.
As far as I can tell, the UK seems to be treated the same as non-EEA Switzerland here. Any Swiss readers want to confirm that?
they have no face, just a series of rules, methods, procedures,..etc. in all, a culture desgined by multiple generations of firm executives optimized to make profit in any way they can.
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> TV, music, movies, theater, and books are supposed to make you feel something when consuming them.

So we don't need a warning when they do. What's not to understand?
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I know nothing about Vim script, but since they're overhauling it, wouldn't it be a better option to rely on python scripting by providing a plugin API? Of course there's backwards compatibility, but they could always support both for a few years. Having to support your own language always seemed like a waste of time to me.
IBM introduced a few products during that time period, but there wasn't a whole lot of development going on during this period due to the depression and then World War II. During WWII, IBM produced a lot of bombsights and rifles, strangely enough.

One interesting thing about the Depression is that IBM weathered it better than most companies because it rented equipment rather than selling it. Companies weren't doing any new investment, but they mostly kept renting the IBM equipment they had. Plus, IBM was selling millions of punch cards per day.
Doesn't change the fact that countries like Israel were able to secure more vaccines relatively to their population (and their GDP) than the EU has so far. Seems like Israel negotiated better than the EU despite the EU constantly self proclaiming to be the best negotiator with the best bargaining power in the world. So far Israel has negotiated and the EU resorts to threatening vaccine nationalism. From the downvotes I can only imply that truth does hurt sometimes.
My memory is getting a little fuzzy. I think the machines we were using were running Windows 98 or perhaps Windows 95. But I didn't want people to be able to do other things on the computers that day as the whole point of the endeavor was to emphasize typing skill, so I looked for some kind of way to make it impossible to do ALT-TAB to switch to a different program. I was thinking I booted it up in DOS only but I also might have run it full screen in Windows and just hoped nobody knew about ALT-TAB. :P
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If you can understand how 'this' works in javascript you can almost certainly understand pointers in C.
The fees are paid by the seller, not the buyer.

So the loser seems to be UK shops.
I am unable to fully explain my birth and existence through evolution alone. I become little aware of the immense beauty and complexity in the natural world and space and feel that there must be God. HN, how have you confronted and answered that question.
So eu clients will be subsidizing uk clients...
Do you see Google, Microsoft and Apple? It’s nearly been 3 years and they don’t really seem to care. Pretty sure the EU is too scared to touch them.
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Your approach might work for the tech-oriented audience members, but the character development and ongoing drama is what makes the show appealing to people who don't care about the tech. It's part of what makes the show brilliant.
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An electrical signal travels close to the speed of light (not the electrons). Even when of course no light travels inside the copper.

If something oscillates at 1 GHz, 15 cm down the wire the phase is opposite. To me it's perfectly correct to say that speed of light affects the design a lot and in many places probably is a bottleneck.
Does not even need to be between countries for example east and west of Denmark are on two different grids which only recently got connected 10 years ago. (Large HVDC under the great belt) I am pretty sure the map on the site is "wrong" as Sjælland (Zealand) the large eastern island of Denmark is on the nordic grid, and so is Bornholm which nearly exclusivly gets it power from Sweden.
> The reality is that, 50 years ago, when only the smartest people attented colleges, a college degree used to be a proxy for aptitude (a combination of intelligence and willingness to work hard).

I don't believe that's true at all. Historically, in the US anyway, a university education was a wealth signal more than an intelligence or work ethic signal.
I'm a long-time DigitalOcean user and I'm happy with most of their products, but I use Backblaze for S3-compatible storage. It's half the price of Spaces, and I get better transfer rates from my DigitalOcean droplet to B2 than I get to Spaces, even within the same DigitalOcean datacenter.

There are tons of companies offering S3-compatible storage, and there's not much difference between them, other than price. Performance capabilities are similar; they all limit bandwidth. All the ones I've evaluated charge for egress over a certain threshold. Some are more reliable than others. For personal use, there's not a whole lot of difference between them for me.

One really cheap alternative for some use cases is Office 365. For $99/year, you can get a family subscription, which allows six accounts. Each gets 1TB of S3-compatible OneDrive storage. If you can handle it being broken up into six 1TB chunks, it's by far the cheapest storage out there. For comparison, Backblaze is $5/TB/mo, and Office 365 gets you $1.37/TB/mo. I didn't end up using this option because the authentication mechanism was inconvenient for my automated use case and I didn't end up needing so much storage, but it's worth investigating if you're on a budget and don't need automated access via e.g. rclone mounts (or want to take the time to overcome the authentication issues I ran into).

I evaluated about a dozen S3 storage options for both backups and as backing storage for a personal Plex server (of media I own) and eventually settled on Backblaze because it's cheap, easy to use, and I didn't need more than 1-2TB in the end (since not a single one can keep up with streaming video bandwidth needs, I ditched the Plex idea).
Well, they are a for profit company.
Nice comparison of js engines can be found in the issues here https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/issues/43...
I remember seeing the 1989 solar storm [1] in upstate New York. I was a little kid and thought aliens had come to Earth. I had never seen such things in the sky before - it was really beautiful.

When the power subsequently went out for two days, my parents got quite tired of me telling them it was an alien invasion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm
Large corporation undermines a group of people to make a buck, news at 11...

Businesses aren't your friends, repeat it with me, no matter how much propoganda they regularly spew out. Sometimes their goals may be temporarily aligned with yours in which case you can leverage their resources but never forget their goals can shift to be misaligned with yours at any point, making them a partial or direct enemy of your goals.

A business exists to make money and wealth for someone or some people. If that's not you, then they're not there to help you. I should point out that there are classes of businesses that do exist somewhat as an exception, certain charities and non-profits, but those aren't representative of the vast majority. Even they often aren't necessarily there to help you per se.
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It is very true.

A similar event happened in Europe a year ago (also due to problems in former Yugoslavia) and all electric clocks in my house (microwave, oven, alarm clocks) went out of sync temporarily. I was just as surprised as you.

Basically, it's exactly the devices that lose track of time in case of a power outage, and that you need to manually adjust for daylight savings time, that are synchronized to the grid. Devices that use a battery (such as laptops, mobile phones, and CMOS clocks in PCs) must necessarily use some other means.

It doesn't seem to be much correlated with price either: my alarm clock cost over $100 and it was still affected. Surely at that price point they could have afforded a crystal oscillator in the design, if they wanted to, but it seems this just isn't typically done.
I'm currently reading the Product Management’s Sacred Seven based on a friend's recommendation that it was good for product management interview prep.

This book looked extremely think and daunting when it arrived.
The GDPR has always amazed me. It changed the playing field from "you can use our free app as long as you give us data for marketing or not use it" to "you can provide a free service in the EU as long as you dont collect data for marketing or dont provide it"

Without making a judgement on the merits of the approach, as a user/individual I appreciate the power this gives to protect my data. As a company/developer the conplexity of navigating the landmines that this poses makes me understand why a lot non EU companies decide to just block EU users. Is it "good riddance " in both cases? Maybe, but still the fact that innovating becomes more expensive sits there.
Pity it's come to this - remember this (and other) fawning coverage?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-the-first-billion-doll...
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I try to use giropay when I can to order food in the hopes the restaurant gets to keep a little more.
Good advice but when it comes to business I think its better to stick with one idea and try the repetitions part of the article wrt to getting leads, traffic and sales and not the business idea.

I mean I see a lot of people trying so many new ideas quickly and not sticking with anything for long. This is a recipe for disaster.
Or take visa? Or any other credit provider? Or a debit card? Heaven forbid that we allow payment providers to compete to provide the best service at the cheapest price.
I bet on housing because betting against housing is betting that politicians will stop catering to homeowners for the benefit of wider productivity and social mobility. I'm willing to incorporate your vampire take into my greater bastard theory.
Wasabi is S3 compatible storage and costs $6/TB per month.

NextCloud and ownCloud can be set up to utilize Amazon S3 or Wasabi storage. This works really well and is very inexpensive. Both my GFs business files and my personal/work files all are backed up Dropbox style for less then $10 a month including web and mobile access.

I found NextCloud a little buggy compared to OwnCloud but it has more features and unfortunately I'm stuck with it for the time being and can't easily switch back to NextCloud. The sync works fine though.
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>Mad Men meets Forest Gump

This is a great description.

>silicon valley nascent tech startup era

Even better is that they start in Texas, and going to the up-and-coming Silicon Valley is one of the story lines.
Sometimes those things are unpleasant. Sometimes those unpleasant things are not necessary to enjoy the production. Again, what's not to understand?
I think that even if you debate cost as a performance metric the others hold true.

And including a thunderbolt hub in the machine would be an additional (quite warm) micro controller.

Even external USB hubs can get quite toasty.
The phone companies had a point about roaming charges: the EU is a single customs market, not a flat-price market.

It is entirely legal for a company to charge different prices in Germany and Greece, except if they're a phone operator. How is that fair?
Since this comment is one of the top threads, I'm just going to re-post my earlier comment from one of the sub-threads:

This comment about having made millions leveraging on SPY and QQQ over the course of 100+ trades doesn't check out, given that a few days back, this commenter created this throwaway account to complain about finding it hard to quit their job at Amazon because the pay is so good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25878201

IOW, they're lying for Internet points.
"Apple may have to cough up €60m ($73m, £53m) after Altroconsumo, an Italian consumers rights group, filed a class-action lawsuit railing against Cupertino's practice of throttling the performance of its older smartphones."
I am really excited about this push technology (example: https://truelayer.com/paydirect)

It seems to me that merchants are paying a ton of money in card fees and waiting 2-3 days for the transaction to settle) whereas actually the transaction could be done for pennies and settle instantly via the UK's very good Faster Payments infrastructure. If this takes off with consumers, Visa and MasterCard are going to see big chunks taken out of their business.
A year and a half ago, I moved my app Nomie from React Native to Svelte (PWA) and have never looked back.

It feels like when I first started using React after living in Angular Hell for a few years - refreshing.
>melvin capital is already 30% of their equity down in January

The thing is, they won (bigly) almost every year since their inception, it's a relatively minor mishap for them even if they gain nothing for the rest 11 months.

Guess what, they and their clients will be laughing their asses off and move on along with their high life.
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I'm only trying to say what they really are. it would be unfair to judge them only based on what they are.

then again, I see open source slowly but steadily losing ground. and if open source has a tough time. free software has it even worse.
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To say something is rocky, is like saying it's unstable/unreliable.